Are you suffering from IACWD?

So, we have been away from Interochen for over 1 week, now, and most likely some of you are suffering from IACWD (Interlochen Arts Camp Withdrawal). Don't worry, there is help. If you or someone you know is suffering from the following symptoms, there is help. Questionaire: --Does all food have that predominant stone taste? --Are you seraching for an alarm clock that will play Reveille at 6:40 every morning? --After a nice cold shower every morning, do you frantically run about your house mopping, sponging, sweeping, and taking out the trash? --Do you find it hard to sleep at night because you have not heard that melodious tune: Taps --Have you confined your living space to 2 shelves and a locker --Do you knock before entering the bathroom to aviod run-ins with naked cabinmates? Is most of your time occupied by your instrument/art form? --Have you forgotten what normal people do with the 6-8 hours a day you are practicing? --Have you forgotten what normal people do without main camp? --Did you smuggle out a pair of knickers??? --Are you curiously drawn to your dark blue/light blue/white clothing? --Does a normal sized shower seem impractical? --Do you find that you spend thursday/friday nights in a frantic practice session, only to realize you have no challenges --Have you taken to practicing in your closet? --When you practice, do you turn on your radios to various classical stations? --(for those of you formerly with top bunks) have you tried to hop out of bed only to find that the floor was right there? --Have you showered in your shoes? --Whenever you are walking around, do you feel apparitional sand between your toes? --Have you been searching out a place to adpot a sea gull, squirrel, or rabid chipmunk? --Do you stand outside of your kitchen waiting for it to "open"? --Do you find it hard to stay up past sunset? --When you think about it, aren't cars unnecessary? don't you find golf carts more pragmatic? --For those of you that utilized Hemmingway and Picasso, do you find it hard to maintain tempo without that rhythmic flushing sound going through the pipes? --What exactly do they mean by television and carpeting? --Do you dump buckets of sand on your floor just to sweep it out? --Have you cut off your jeans at the knees and sewn buttons on the ends? --Do you have an uncontrollable urge to tuck in your shirt? --Do you feel naked without your badge? --Do you wear your badge? --Are your knee socks and/or belt an important accessory to any wardrobe? --Do you find it hard to approximate a person's age without taking a glance at the color of their socks/belt? --When you're ill, do you go to Dr. Beat? --Do you think of the basement of Frolich as a romantic getaway? --Do you use the smallest cup in your kitchen and refill it 30 times? --Is dead lettuce |he only lettuce for you? --Do you saturate your bed with bugspray before going to sleep? --Have you filled your swimming pool with leeches and swimmers itch? --Does the phrase "to be early is to be on time and to be on time is to be late" make sense? --Have you sounded the call to dear old Interlochen? If any of these make sense to you, get help...IACWD is a serious matter that many people never get over in a lifetime.